fyi - [TriLUG] IDE RAID
Mark Biggers
biggers at utsl.com
Sat Jul 5 11:57:21 EDT 2003
Possible contact? Just dug this up.
----mark
Jay Barrett writes:
> Justin,
>
> I have been using using an 3Ware Escalade 7500 IDE RAID
> controller with RH 7.3 for the past 5 months with no issues.
> My NAS is configured with as a 5 drive RAID 5 array with a hot
> spare. I went with 3Ware's the 8 drive parallel ATA version but
> also they have 4 and 2 drive versions. The card was easy to
> configure and has been painless since then. I must warn you that
> routing the cables was a pain and I ended up using the round single
> connection cables. I really wanted to get the serial ATA version to
> avoid the cabling issues and the potential of the cables to impact
> the airflow and thus cause thermal problems which would lead to a
> premature failure. At that time serial ATA drives were difficult to get
> and limited to 80GB, but the next one I buy will be serial ATA.
>
> By the way my decision to use the 3Ware card drove my choices
> on Motherboards (Tyan dual Xeon) and drives (IBM 185GB) in order
> to stay within their (3ware) compatibility matrix. And the motherboard
> drove the rack mount chassis decision, which could not be sourced
> locally. Anyways after a little detective work all came together
> nicely and I would definitely buy another 3Ware controller.
>
> Small Print: My primary complaint about IDE RAID cards is that nobody
> locally (RTP area) carries anything other than 2 port cards, but a few
> will special order them for you, but that kind of defeats the purpose
> in my mind.
>
> Regards,
> Jay
>
> Jay at Skyboxx.com
>
>
>
> From: trilug-admin at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-admin at trilug.org] On Behalf
> Of Justin Johnson
> Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2003 3:38 PM
> To: TriLUG
> Subject: [TriLUG] Installing linux on IDE RAID
>
> Any one here installed linux(RedHat) on a system with IDE raid? I have
> asystem with a Promise Fastrax TX2000 controller and space available, so
> I
> was considering diving in and installing RH 9 on it. Any thing to watch
> out
> for, or is it pretty straight forward. I know that ther are drivers
> avaialble, off to get the most current one now.
>
> TIA,
> Justin
>
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